Watch-protector.



B. GREENBERG.

WATCH PROTECTOR.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 28, 1909 Patented Mar. 29, 1910.

IN I/EA/TOI? er'zjam in Green 581' By 4 "DRIVE 76' WITNESSES BENJAMINGREENBERG, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WATCH-PROTECTOR.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN GREEN- BERG, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphiaand State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved VVatoh-Protector, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The invention relates to watch protectors, such as shown and describedin the Letters Patent of the United States, No. 600,000, granted to meMarch 1, 1898.

The object of the present invention is to provide a new and improvedwatch protector for convenient and secure attachment to the pocket of aVest or other garment, and arranged to permit the wearer of the garmentto conveniently place the watch in position in the protector or removeit therefrom and to prevent abstraction of the watch by pickpockets orunauthorized persons.

The object is attained by providing a pocket case formed of two membershinged together and adapted to receive the watch between them, the outercase member having at its top a cut-out portion or recess foraccommodating the watch pendant, a guiding flange on the inner memberopposite the said recess, a finger piece on the outer case member at oneside of the recess, and means for securing the innermost case member tothe pocket lining.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in theaccompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in whichsimilar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all theviews.

Figure 1 is a front face View of the im provement; Fig. 2 is a rear faceview of the same; Fig. 3 is an edge view of the same; Fig. A is a planView of the improvement partly opened; and Fig. 5 is a transversesection of the improvement as applied and secured inposition in thepocket of a garment.

The pocket case is formed of inner and outer members A and B, connectedwith each other at their lower ends by a hinge O, provided with a springD for normally keeping the members A and B in a closed position with thewatch between the said members. The pocket case is placed into a pocketE of a vest or other garment, and is fastened to the inner wall orlining E of the pocket, so as to securely hold the pocket case inposition in the pocket E. For the purpose men- Specification of LettersPatent.

Application filed January 28, 1909.

Patented Mar. 29, 1910.

Serial No. 474,767.

tioned the rear member A of the pocket case is provided with pointed andthreaded pins F and F, adapted to be pushed through the fasten the casein position in the pocket E.

The pins F and F are pointed to permit ready piercing of the lining E,and the nuts F F have their threaded openings terminating a distancefrom the outer face of the nuts, so that when the latter are secured inplace the points of the pins F and F are concealed and hence are notliable to injure the wearer of the garment. As shown in the drawings,the pin F is placed near the bottom of the case member A, while the pinF projects from a guiding flange Gr, formed on the top of the casemember A and bent rearwardly and upwardly, so as to guide the watch whenplacing the same into the pocket case.

Opposite the guiding flange G and on top of the front case member B isformed a cutout portion or recess H, to accommodate the pendant of thewatch when the latter is in position in the pocket case, as indicated indotted lines in Fig. 5. On the front case member B and at one side ofthe cut-out portion H is arranged a finger piece I adapted to be takenhold of by the wearer of the garment with the thumb of the left hand,for bringing the front member B into an open position when it is desiredto place the watch into the pocket case or remove it therefrom, it beingunderstood that when the pocket case is partly opened by the operatorpressing on the finger piece I, then the operator having hold of thewatch with the right hand can readily slip the same down over theguiding flange G into the partly open case, and then the operatorreleases the watch and the finger piece T, to allow the case member B toswing shut by the action of the spring D. Now when the watch is inposition in the pocket case, it is securely held against abstraction bypickpockets or other unauthorized persons, but when the user of thegarment desires to remove the watch he only needs to press slightly inan outward direction on the finger piece I to partly open the pocketcase and to allow the operator to pull out the watch.

The inner faces of the members A and B,

as well as the flange Gr are preferably lined the recess of the frontmember, a spring 1.; normally holding the members closed, pointed andthreaded pins, one secured to the rear member near the bottom and theother to the guiding flange of said member, and nuts on the said pins.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

BEUJATVITN GREENE Ell G.

\Vitn esses Tnno. G. lilos'rmz, JOHN P. DAVIS.

